This post was written by Allison Ettinger and originally appeared on the Jacaranda Health Blog.
A new mother and baby at Jacaranda
Joyce*, a healthy mother, glows as she admires her new baby. Her husband collects her belongings as she prepares to leave Jacaranda Maternity, and she hugs the community health worker who provided her discharge education: “See you in a few days,” she says. Most health care providers in Kenya – or across the developing world –would schedule a new mother’s six week postnatal visit, hope she returns for it, and call it a day. Jacaranda thinks otherwise.
Databases on the internet are.....everywhere. You can find lists and literature reviews, and of course millions of materials, no matter what you’re looking for, via Google. But how do you know what’s good? Having thousands of materials to look through is not really a great thing, when you think about it, if you don’t have any idea how useful they really are.
